SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Quentin L. Kopp, following his swearing-in Jan. 2 as San Mateo County's newest Superior Court jurist, s...

VENTURA - In 25 years of practice as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, Louis "Chuck" Samonsky said he has never see...

RIVERSIDE - Among the barrage of privacy lawsuits filed against Consolidated Freightways since video surveillance cameras wer...

Keeping alive more than 50 pending California state securities fraud cases, the state Supreme Court on Monday ruled that out-...

California law firms were among the beneficiaries of $307 billion in California deals last year - a significant number of whi...

A year after a new tax law specifically targeting lawyers took effect, the Internal Revenue Service has yet to issue regulati...

The multimillion-dollar settlement last week between the state attorney general's office and an Ohio-based life insurance comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp defeat for the gun lobby, the California Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a challenge to ...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge recommended that the 4th District Court of Appeal grant a habeas corpus motion filed by fo...

A new law that will go on the books in January will help Los Angeles evict suspected drug dealers from their apartments, and ...

SANTA ANA - Services are pending in Virginia for former Orange County Superior Court Presiding Judge Philip E. Cox. Cox died ...

ONTARIO - Building new courthouses in San Bernardino, the High Desert and Rancho Cucamonga were among options presented to Sa...

SACRAMENTO - Daniel M. Kolkey, Gov. Pete Wilson's legal affairs secretary, has been confirmed as a justice on the 3rd Distric...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge William Cahill recused District Attorney Terence Hallinan and his entire office Monday fr...

In an extremely rare, if not unprecedented, occurrence in California's criminal courts, a convicted two-strike defendant has ...

A Pasadena attorney who initially was accused of raping a client and mishandling a civil lawsuit against her company has been...

SAN DIEGO - It's 7 a.m. and Superior Court Judge Terry J. Knoepp has been in chambers for almost an hour, poring over court do...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled a convicted child molester may be barred from possessing "sexually stimulat...

As affairs between lawyers in the same office go, it wasn't the most chivalrous breakup. Besides calling his ex-lover a "gutt...

The city attorney's office should remain unified under an elected city attorney, but control over litigation should be shared...

Both the prosecutor and defense attorneys who tried the case of Keith Eric Cook, a 32-year-old mechanic convicted Friday of g...

WASHINGTON - In its final report delivered to Congress Friday, a commission charged with studying the structure of the federa...

Still stinging from widespread criticism of its $900,000 lobbying contract two years ago, the State Bar Board of Governors has...

Dona Bracke, who recently was fired from her post as a Glendale Municipal Court traffic commissioner, says she was "sandbagge...

ANAHEIM - Now that Parham Williams Jr. has led Chapman University School of Law through the harrowing experience of gaining th...

With California's March 2000 primary election just 15 months off, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has begun...

Embroiled in a lawsuit with the developer of the home she was selling, attorney Lisa Hervatin did not suspect that the prospe...

Originally, Bank of America and real estate lawyer Ernest L. Messner Jr. were on the same side, as co-administrators of a tru...

Complaining the police department is not properly paying overtime, Los Angeles police officers have sued the city of Los Ange...

A state appeal panel has ruled that foster children who have reached 18 are not entitled to county aid to help them complete ...